Wendy Ashmore is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. Since completion of research at Quirigua, Guatemala, she has conducted field projects at Gualjoquito and Copan, in Honduras, and at Xunantunich, Belize. She has edited or coedited several books, including Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns (1981), Household and Community in the Mesoamerican Past (1988), Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Approaches (1999), and Integrating the Diversity of 21st-Century Anthropology: The Life and Intellectual Legacies of Susan Kent (2007).